Three 30-minute rides each week of the year Challenge 2023

[bluenotebob]

If you mean the "slime" ones, I have tried them, and just given up after Friday. They certainly seemed to help, but when I did get a puncture that wouldn't self-seal, they are pretty well unrepairable - I couldn't get a patch to stick at all.

Yes - innertubes with "slime" inside. So they are available in the UK...

Did you get home after the puncture? That's the most important thing to me. Deal with the problem later and, if necessary, replace the innertube. I've only had to replace two in 7 years and they're not expensive - I think the last one I got was 6 euros + VAT (but like everything else, I expect they've gone up in price recently).

I really don't know if they are patchable - but I wouldn't give up with the principle of them. Just get a new innertube occasionally,

IIRC @ColinJ once spent 40 minutes at the roadside repairing a puncture.... 40 minutes! Well, if that had been me, I'd have chucked the bike in a ditch, given up cycling and taken up knitting or watching telly (something less stressful anyway).

 

[Alex321]

Yes - innertubes with "slime" inside. So they are available in the UK...

Did you get home after the puncture? That's the most important thing to me. Deal with the problem later and, if necessary, replace the innertube. I've only had to replace two in 7 years and they're not expensive - I think the last one I got was 6 euros + VAT (but like everything else, I expect they've gone up in price recently).

I really don't know if they are patchable - but I wouldn't give up with the principle of them. Just get a new innertube occasionally,

IIRC @ColinJ once spent 40 minutes at the roadside repairing a puncture.... 40 minutes! Well, if that had been me, I'd have chucked the bike in a ditch, given up cycling and taken up knitting or watching telly (something less stressful anyway).

Yes, I got home - or rather to work, since it was on my morning commute. I always carry a spare inner tube, no matter how puncture proof my setup is supposed to be.

 

[ColinJ]

IIRC @ColinJ once spent 40 minutes at the roadside repairing a puncture.... 40 minutes! Well, if that had been me, I'd have chucked the bike in a ditch, given up cycling and taken up knitting or watching telly (something less stressful anyway).

About as long as that!

It was the worst combination of rim and tyre bead that I've ever had. It was a long time ago and I have never had anything like that problem since, thank heavens.

I can get most of my tyres on and off with bare hands now.

 

[FrothNinja]

The folk I knew (not many admittedly) running the slime tubes have changed to tubeless.

 

[bluenotebob]

The folk I knew (not many admittedly) running the slime tubes have changed to tubeless.

Well, at least you considered the possibility of slime tubes.

They've been completely reliable for me and they require no work at all. If you're going tubeless you will have to check the sealant level every so often - but I'm sure you know that.

 

[bluenotebob]

Oh ... @FrothNinja .. I forgot to mention that on Thursday I'm getting an upgrade to my Sigma handlebar computer on my road bike that will calculate total elevation over the course of a ride. God knows how it works as I don't think it uses GPS ... but if it does work, then I may well join your Simplified Loony Climbing Challenge (but with a perhaps laughably low daily target..)

 

[FrothNinja]

Oh ... @FrothNinja .. I forgot to mention that on Thursday I'm getting an upgrade to my Sigma handlebar computer on my road bike that will calculate total elevation over the course of a ride. God knows how it works as I don't think it uses GPS ... but if it does work, then I may well join your Simplified Loony Climbing Challenge (but with a perhaps laughably low daily target..)

Look forward to seeing you there

 

[bluenotebob]

More of this week's rides ...

Week 13 – ride 3 (Tues) – 47 mins – Pontmenard loop: on the MASSI
Week 13 – ride 4 (Tues) – 39 mins – a loop around SBdM: on the Urban Shaper
Week 13 – ride 5 (Tues) – 46 mins – SBdM and Devison: also on the Urban Shaper

That last ride means the Urban Shaper is the third of my bikes to exceed 200km this month. I’ll see if I can get a fourth over the line before the end of Friday evening

Week 13 – ride 6 (Wed) – 1 hr 19 mins – La Ville Haligan and Evriguet: on the Princess

On the D2 east of Evriguet this afternoon – outside the cemetery and then the approach to la Ville Nizan

 

[FrothNinja]

W13R1 - Hybrid 2 hours 18 mins - Gravel hooliganism (including my longest ever jump) with a friend riding a fat bike around a Southern Uplands windfarm. Glorious clear, very cold, day.
W13R2 - Hybrid 3 hours - Piddled down the whole time! Rigside Spectacle. Road (mostly) loops including Auchlochan, Lesmahagow, Douglas Water, Rigside (great roadside café with helpful owners), Uddington, Coalburn, and Water Meetings.
W13R3 - Mares 30 mins - Local miles round Burnley, Brierfield.
W13R4 - Mares 32 mins (moving time 4 hours 37 mins) - Belle Vue, Meole Brace, Radbrook Green, Belle Vue, Town Walls, Frankwell, Quarry, Belle Vue, Meole Brace
W13R5 - Mares 1 hour 2 mins - Belle Vue, Meole Brace, Radbrook Green, Belle Vue, Quarry, West Mid Show Grounds, Berwick, West Mid Show Grounds, Quarry, Belle Vue, Meole Brace
W13R6 - Mares 31 mins - Belle Vue, Meole Brace, Radbrook Green, Nobold, assorted little lanes, Nobold, Radbrook Green, Meole Brace, Belle Vue
W13R7 - Mares 43 mins - Clarion run.

 

[bluenotebob]

Week 13 (27th March to 2nd April)

205km cycled this week (year to date = 2707km)

All five bikes have now passed 425km in 2023 (target = all five to do a minimum of 1000km each in 2023)

15 rides this week over 30 mins:

Week 13 rides 1 to 6 posted upthread ..

Week 13 – ride 7 (Thurs) – 1 hr 11 mins – already very windy before Storm Mathis hits tonight – Devison and la Justice: on the MASSI

Went out again a bit later for another 20 mins on the MASSI and got her annual distance up to 702km – I wonder if she’ll be the first bike to 1000km this year? It’ll be a battle between her and the road bike …

Week 13 – ride 8 (Thurs) – 37 mins – local lanes, sheltering as much as possible from the wind: on the RAID
Week 13 – ride 9 (Fri) – 38 mins – Pontmenard loop, battling against the remnants of last night’s storm: on the MASSI
Week 13 - ride 10 (Sat) – 36 mins – SBdM and la Plaisance: on La Rossa
Week 13 – ride 11 (Sat) – 56 mins – Devison and SBdM: on the Urban Shaper
Week 13 – ride 12 (Sat) – 1 hr 9 mins – le Faux, Esquiniac and Raserais: on the Princess
Week 13 – ride 13 (Sun) – 58 mins – Devison and Plaisance: on the Princess
Week 13 – ride 14 (Sun) – 36 mins – Pontmenard loop: on the RAID
Week 13 – ride 15 (Sun) – 34 mins – local lanes: also on the RAID

 

[Alex321]

Week 13

W13 R1 29/03/23 1:02:22 15.43 miles commute to work
W13 R2 29/03/23 0:59.01 15.26 miles commute home
W13 R3 01/04/23 2:03:05 28.67 miles. Saturday Social BOC ride, lead by Ed Laverack. Loop from Llanelli out to Pontyberem and back via Burry Port.
W13 R4 02/04/23 0:56:40 14.24 miles Loop round City - Llanaharry - Pontyclun - Miskin - Hensol - Tredodridge - Welsh St Donats - Home.

12 weeks success out of 13.

 

[ColinJ]

Ride durations rounded down to the nearest quarter of an hour and excluding breaks.

Week 13: 4 qualifying rides, 83 km, 4.75 hrs.

• Ride 1 (Wed): (Singlespeed) 16 km. A646 to Hebden Bridge cafe to meet friend, then back. 3/4 hr.
• Ride 2 (Thu): (Singlespeed) 9 km. Lumpy local loop + shops. 1/2 hr.
• Ride 3 (Fri): (Singlespeed) 8 km. Lumpy local loop. 1/2 hr.
• Ride 4 (Sun): (Singlespeed) 50 km. Tod, Hebden Bridge, Mytholmroyd, Cragg Vale, Blackstone Edge, Blue Ball Rd, Hubberton Green, Scout Rd, Mytholmroyd, Calder Valley Cycleway, Hebden Bridge, Tod. Toughish 750+ metres of ascent in 52/19 gear! 3 hrs.

Success rate: 13 weeks out of 13.

40 qualifying rides so far this year, totalling 675 km, and taking approximately 41.5 hrs.

PS Shouldn't we all be doing the chatty stuff for this challenge in the Chat Zone...?

 

[Alex321]

PS Shouldn't we all be doing the chatty stuff for this challenge in the Chat Zone...?

I don't see one for this challenge

 

[ColinJ]

I don't see one for this challenge

Pedant.

I must have been thinking of (pretty much?) all of the other challenges!

 

[bluenotebob]

Week 14 (3rd April to 9th April)

The best week of the year so far with 378km cycled (year to date = 3085km)

255km on the road bike this week – almost as much as she did in the whole of March … I must adjust down the March target for the road bike in 2024

12 rides this week over 30 mins, including. two fairly long ones:

Week 14 – ride 1 (Mon) – 45 mins – SBdM and Devison: on the MASSI
Week 14 – ride 2 (Mon) – 44 mins – SBdM and la Plaisance: on la Rossa
Week 14 – ride 3 (Tues) – 1 hr 55 mins – Brignac, Ménéac, Corbinais and Kerminy: on la Rossa
Week 14 – ride 4 (Wed) – 5 hrs 14 mins – SBdM, Pont Ruelland, Quihiac, Mauron, Ploërmel, NtB canal, Josselin, le Val, St Malo-des-Trois Fontaines, Kerbigot, la Ville Trémal, Evriguet, Kerminy, SBdM: on la Rossa
Week 14 – ride 5 (Thurs) – 1 hr 9 mins – Devison and Justice: on the MASSI
Week 14 – ride 6 (Fri) – 6 hrs 2 mins – la Plaisance – St Brieuc-de-Mauron – Kerminy – Evriguet – Guilliers – Chateau Trô – la Ville Oger – Linho – St Malo-des-Trois Fontaines – Penros – Josselin – l’Herbinaye – le Roc St André – Pont de Bagotais – Ploërmel – Loyat – Mauron – Pont Ruelland – St Brieuc-de-Mauron: on La Rossa
Week 14 – ride 7 (Sat) – 1 hr 41 mins – Plaisance, Evriguet, Kerminy, le Faux, Raserais and Esquiniac: on the Princess
Week 14 – ride 8 (Sat) – 1 hr 17 mins – Devison, la Suais, Esquiniac, Bourg Neuf, le Faux, Geffray and Pontmenard: on the MASSI
Week 14 – ride 9 (Sun) – 52 mins – la Plaisance and la Ville Geffray: on la Rossa
Week 14 - ride 10 (Sun) - 42 mins - two loops around Pontmenard: on the Urban Shaper
Week 14 – ride 11 (Sun) – 51 mins – SBdM, Geffray, le Faux and la Suais: also on the Urban Shaper
Week 14 – ride 12 (Sun) – 1 hr 18 mins – local lanes and offroad to la Ville Geffray, then Kerminy, la Ville Nizan, la Ville Jan, les Fougerets and le Faux: on the MASSI

Here's La Rossa by the river Oust in Josselin on Friday